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Huckleberry Pudding

A steamed pudding made with butter, sugar, molasses, milk, eggs, huckleberries, cinnamon, baking soda, and flour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Huckleberry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar.

  2. Add the molasses, milk, and eggs. Mix well.

Make and steam the pudding

  1. Gently fold in the huckleberries, cinnamon, baking soda, and flour until combined.

  2. Pour the mixture into a greased pudding mold.

  3. Steam the pudding for 3 hours.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Cinnamon + flourtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Sugar + molassestop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Butter
Creams with sugar to trap air and add richness and tenderness to the pudding.
Eggs
Bind the batter and add structure as the pudding sets.
Flour
Provides the main structure that holds the pudding together.
Baking soda
Reacts with the molasses acidity to help the pudding rise and lighten.
Molasses
Adds moisture, dark color, and a deep sweetness with a hint of acidity.
Huckleberries
Add fruit moisture, tartness, and flavor throughout the pudding.

The step that matters

Folding in the huckleberries, baking soda, and flour. Folding gently keeps air in the creamed batter so the pudding stays light. Overmixing develops gluten in the flour, making the pudding dense and tough.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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